Women Piece Together Quilt For Stamford Museum & Nature Center

STAMFORD, Conn. -- In a large open area of the mansion at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center, with a portrait of Mrs. Eleanor B. Sachs looking down on them, three women quietly went to work on a large quilt.

Women work on a quilt at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center that will be used as a fundraiser for the museum. From left are: Doris Ieva, Pia DeLuca, Laura Lovello and Sonhild Rodney.
Photo Credit: *Frank MacEachern*

Sonhild Rodney works on a quilt at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center. The quilt will be used in a fundraiser for the museum.
Photo Credit: *Frank MacEachern*

Doris Ieva folds a quilt she created while a second one she made is spread on the floor at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center.
Photo Credit: *Frank MacEachern*

Frank MacEachern

10/08/2014 5:00 a.m.

The quilt will be auctioned at a fundraiser for the Stamford Museum & Nature Center, said Sonhild Rodney, one of the quilters.

“We have lots of scraps that we use, and they get the quilt,” she said.

Rodney was joined by Doris Ieva and Pia DeLuca on Monday morning at the museum. They meet every Monday at 9 a.m. and work on the quilt until about noon.

This week, they were joined by Laura Lovello, who although she wasn’t quilting, decided to visit Monday morning.

Ieva said it will take them about a year to finish the 76-inch by 88-inch quilt.

A quilt is made up of the top, the colorfully designed part that everyone sees; the middle part that is called the batting; and the third part, the back.

The women said they are always looking for other quilters to join them in their task.

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